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ON SAFARI 
white edge, and the bare spot beneath the ear, that are 
characteristic of its genus. Irides dark. 
Darkness was gathering ere we started campwards 
with our burden, and we suffered a bad half-hour or 
two, path-finding in the dark through heavy scrub, till 
we met tw T o askaris with lanterns, whom W-had 
HEAD OF EAST-AFRICAN REEDBUCK. 
sent to pilot us in. He had shot a Grant’s gazelle, and 
both of us had struck fresh rhino spoor. 
Thus ended our Twelfth on the equator. We had 
brought in five head of as many different species, and 
three of them new to us. Plenty reigned once more— 
we had half-a-ton of meat, on which our men fed like 
wolves. Presently weird music—chant and song ac- 
